H.R. 152 · 119th Congress · Emergency management
Federal Disaster Assistance Coordination Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Jan 13, 2025
Roll call ↗405
5
Passed the House.
Passed the House on January 13, 2025.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
- IntroducedJan 3, 2025
- CommitteeJan 3, 2025
- Passed HouseJan 13, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 2
- all Democrats
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental AffairsHouse Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
- Lobbying
- At least 1
- organization named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
The bill rewrites Section 1223 of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018 to order studies, not to change any benefit.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, January 13, 2025
Yea unless marked
D · House · NC-12
R · House · AL-4
D · House · CA-33
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
The bill rewrites Section 1223 of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018 to order studies, not to change any benefit. Within 2 years, the FEMA Administrator must conduct a study and develop a plan to make the collection of information from disaster assistance applicants and grantees less burdensome, duplicative, and time consuming. FEMA must also develop a plan for the regular collection and public reporting of federal disaster assistance awarded, including a public website. Separately, FEMA must convene a working group with the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Transportation, Commerce, the Small Business Administration, OMB, and inspectors general to identify duplication in preliminary damage assessments after disaster declarations, and to determine whether one agency could make those assessments for all. That group must consider emerging technologies such as unmanned aircraft systems to speed the assessments. FEMA must submit one comprehensive report to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, post it publicly on FEMA's website, and brief Congress on request within 180 days.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 1 organization named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 7 quarterly reports filed by 1 lobbying firm in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
The organization named: Buildstrong America, Inc. Listed as filed. It is every client name on the filings counted here.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.